Recently purchased a refurbished Dell Latitude E6520 laptop with Win 7 Pro, quad core Intel, and 8 GB of RAM. Works great, except I use a mouse, and the touchpad and buttons are a nuisance in that when I type, I inadvertently hit one of them, and the cursor jumps to somewhere else on the page, and my typing ends up in the wrong place. Neither the owners manual nor the online help for the machine address this issue.

My wife has a Dell Inspiron laptop, and the owners manual tells you very explicitly how to disable the touchpad and its buttons.

As a temporary fix, I made a small plexiglass "bridge" which covers both the touchpad and the buttons so that I can't actually touch them, and thus the cursor remains where it belongs. But this fix is inconvenient in that you can't completely close the lid.

Anyone know how to disable the touchpad and buttons on this particular machine?

Thanks!

Ken

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